[Dx4win] DX4WIN 8.02 SAME CALL Window Advice
(K7ZO) Scott Tuthill
k7zo at cableone.net
Mon Apr 19 22:45:22 EDT 2010
I just got done processing over 1,000 cards for NK7U as his QSL manager.
This is the first batch of cards since upgrading to DX4WIN 8. There are
still a couple of things about the SAME CALL Window that are driving me
crazy and I wonder if anyone out there knows if there are fixes for these or
if they are in the works. Or, is there a way I can get this input to the
DX4WIN team to seriously consider?
Anyone out there who processes many cards for a large log, and NK7U's is
over 250,000 qso's, will run into the same problems.
The general problem is this. With a card in hand I enter the callsign into
the Callsign field and then hit enter. This brings up all the QSO's with
that station in the SAME CALL window so I can choose which one to confirm
and set for a label in order to reply. The two issues are this.
1. DX4WIN automatically loads the OLDEST QSO into the QSO window and
highlights the oldest QSO in the SAME CALL window and scrolls to the bottom
of the qso list in that window. If the card is from a station with which we
have had many QSO's, and all the QSO's can't be displayed in the SAME CALL
window, this means the QSO I need to select is off the top of the list and
I have to scroll the whole list up to the more recent QSO's. Is there a way
to have DX4WIN automatically load the NEWEST QSO and display the more recent
QSO's in the SAME CALL window.
2. When you start to move the cursor in the SAME CALL window a Pop Up Help
is displayed saying "Double-click to go to QSO....". Though it disappears
after a moment it often covers up the information, date and time, that I
need to identify the correct QSO. Though the help is probably helpful for an
occasional user it is a nuisance after you have seen it 25 times, not to
mention 1000 times. Is there a way to turn this on and off? [As a comparison
the DX Spots window does not have the same Pop Up Help. It is just common
usage that you double click on the spot to load it into the QSO window. Why
does the SAME CALL window have to have this help. It has been there for many
versions now, I had hoped this issue would have been worked on by now.]
Thanks everyone for your help.
Scott/K7ZO
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